From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753031Ab0BIEYH (ORCPT ); Mon, 8 Feb 2010 23:24:07 -0500 Received: from ozlabs.org ([203.10.76.45]:41065 "EHLO ozlabs.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752295Ab0BIEYD (ORCPT ); Mon, 8 Feb 2010 23:24:03 -0500 Date: Tue, 9 Feb 2010 15:23:48 +1100 From: Paul Mackerras To: Cyrill Gorcunov Cc: Ingo Molnar , Peter Zijlstra , Stephane Eranian , Frederic Weisbecker , Don Zickus , LKML Subject: Re: [RFC perf,x86] P4 PMU early draft Message-ID: <20100209042348.GA2558@brick.ozlabs.ibm.com> References: <20100208184504.GB5130@lenovo> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20100208184504.GB5130@lenovo> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, Feb 08, 2010 at 09:45:04PM +0300, Cyrill Gorcunov wrote: > The main problem in implementing P4 PMU is that it has much more > restrictions for event to MSR mapping. So to fit into current > perf_events model I made the following: Is there somewhere accessible on the web where I can read about the P4 PMU? I'm interested to see if the constraint representation and search I used on the POWER processors would be applicable. Paul.